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Date:      Tue, 21 Feb 2017 14:40:02 +0000
From:      Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Eric Badger <badger@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        Bartek Rutkowski <robak@FreeBSD.org>, src-committers@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, svn-src-head@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r314036 - head/usr.sbin/bsdinstall/scripts
Message-ID:  <20170221144002.GA87822@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <28a4cf5e-2edd-3e30-9ecd-817f886e9ea3@FreeBSD.org>
References:  <201702210937.v1L9bY6V093836@repo.freebsd.org> <28a4cf5e-2edd-3e30-9ecd-817f886e9ea3@FreeBSD.org>

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On Tue, Feb 21, 2017 at 08:34:29AM -0600, Eric Badger wrote:
> Thanks for working on making it easier to harden FreeBSD. While
> defaulting some of these options to "on" seem pretty harmless (e.g.
> random_pid), others are likely to cause confusion for new and
> experienced users alike (e.g. proc_debug. I've never used that option
> before, so I gave it a try. It simply causes gdb to hang when attempting
> to start a process, with no obvious indication of why).

I concur.  In fact, harmless knobs should probably be turned on by default
in FreeBSD itself (i.e., without any "hardening" help from the installer),
while more intrusive ones should be opt-in, not opt-out.

./danfe



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